After a couple of long, stressful months at work, Erik and I are getting our respective butts in gear on the wedding again. One thing I have had trouble with is choosing my colors. There are too many colors I like to only choose two. And the colors I DO like for the wedding are never represented in bridal magazines or websites. It’s always orange and pink, or red, or black and white, or green.
Tell us in comments – what were your colors in your wedding, or in weddings you’ve been to? How were the colors incorporated in the wedding? Am I going to be banned from the Wedding Hall of Fame if we choose more than two colors – say, an entire palette of shades in blue and green?
My friend Tia used a palette of greens at her wedding last year and it worked really well. Her two bridesmaids wore different dresses (the same green, I think), and her reception had different green ribbons (on the favors), various green candles and table cloths.
My friend Kara’s colors were black and hot pink, which was awesome. Her ‘maids wore black and carried hot pink flowers; she carried hot pink flowers, and her mom wore a hot pink dress. Sounds tacky, but it worked really well, and her pictures came out beautifully.
The wedding I’m going to next weekend is going to have raspberry and gold for its colors. I’ll bring back a full report.
Whatever colors you decide on, I’ve already got my answer to this question figured out.
Ahem.
“Those look great dear!”
E – you’ve got that right (and are halfway to a successful marriage).
We did a light blue and a light green. That’s about as descriptive as you’ll get from either of us, we kind of fell in to those colors. See here (green-my brother’s vest and tie, blue-chair ribbon). My mom insisted on the chair ribbons – we didn’t want them. In the end, it doesn’t matter. Nobody remembers your fucking chairs. Seriously.
And Dana let the bridesmaids choose any black dress they wanted. I’m not sure what kind of restrictions she had (ankle length?). It worked out really well.
Though I’m sure D would have rather skipped the long white dress and gone with something a little more like this.
Very good answer, sweetheart.
We took our colors from an article layout in Wired magazine–sorta seagreen (pretty, not puke-ish) and medium-light blue. Bridesmaids wore black evening gowns because I was 1) too damn busy to pick out bridesmaid dresses 2) don’t know much about dresses anyway and 3) didn’t really give a s. Colors worked great for a summer wedding, wedding party looked awesome, and we all lived happily ever after.
Seriously, read Wired and see if there are any other good color combos in there….
I totally love that you guys took colors from a spread in Wired magazine. I went looking for bridal magazines last night (because I must collect them all) and ALL of them had pink everywhere. Barf.
Hello. Pick what you are interested in – be sure it is available in some form for you wedding.
I wanted red, but the dress we got the girls did not come in red. So we went with light blue. I loved it and we all lived. The blue turned out a little light in some of the pictures (read – light = white) which I was not to happy about, but we don’t have the time, effort, or money to do all of that again.
Bottom line – you will get married no matter what color or colors you choose. Go with it and love it!
Go with whatever colors you want. In the end it’s whatever makes you and Erik happy, and screw anybody else.
Hell if it makes you happy go with an elvis theme, but tell him you get to be elvis, he can be priscilla…
You will only be getting married once in your life, that is unless he asks for a second wedding many years from now as is the tradition in EVERY family oriented sit-com with 2 parents…